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The Worst Place to Drop a Cellphone? Here: "Edwin Gallart, 41, of the Edenwald section of the Bronx, was aboard car 8371 of the 6:19 p.m. Harlem Line local train out of Grand Central Terminal when his cellphone fell into the toilet, officials said. When he reached into the bowl to retrieve it, his arm became trapped from hand to elbow. Minutes later, a passenger alerted a conductor, who arranged for the train to pick up a supervisor at its first stop, 125th Street.

Alas, the supervisor could not release Mr. Gallart's arm. Train operators arranged for rescue crews to meet the train a few stops later at the Fordham station, where firefighters used no less than three sets of power tools, including the jaws of life, to cut through the toilet, which was ripped from the lavatory before being sliced open.

While the train was stopped at Fordham Road, northbound local trains were rerouted, Mr. Brucker said, which left them unable to stop at the five Bronx stations after and including Fordham. Passengers wanting to get off at those stops had to go to the Mount Vernon West station in Westchester and board southbound trains.

As for the toilet, it will take about three days to repair it, said Al Cecere, the Harlem Line facilities director. The phone was not found, he added, but 'you wouldn't want to put that on your face afterwards anyway."

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